Paint Where We Live with Kevin McKay
Event description
Kevin McKay will help you construct a painting of the intimate and public places you know with reference to your photos and contemporary artists working in this genre. Using acrylics and oils this workshop will cover how to structure a composition with correct proportion and perspective, colour mixing, structuring paint layers and capturing the fleeting effects of light. This course will benefit the novice as well as those with previous painting experience. NOTE: Please bring several photographic images of local subject you wish to paint. (Some images will also be provided) Art Materials and Lunch is provided.
TUTOR BIO
Kevin McKay is an urban/suburban landscape painter who holds a Masters in Fine Art from the National Art School, and exhibits at May Space Gallery, Sydney. Accolades include; The Basil & Muriel Hooper Scholarship from the AGNSW, 2006; the Sydney City of Villages Art Prize, 2009; the inaugural William Fletcher Foundation Scholarship to The British School at Rome, 2011; the Kogarah Emerging Artist Prize, 2012; the Waverley Oil Painting Prize, 2013; the Allan Gamble Memorial Prize, 2015; the People’s Choice Award, Waverley Art Prize, 2016, the People’s Choice Award, Greenway Art Prize, 2017; and Bayside Art Award, 2018.
For more info on Kevin McKay: www.kevinmckayart.com